Artwork of the month - video (53 sec)
Woodworking - Self Portrait
Year | 2021 |
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Size | 22 cm x 27.5 cm x 26.5 cm |
Materials | various types of clay, minerals, pigments, glazes, glue |
Options | / |
Edition | 1/1 |
For Sale | Yes, contact our gallery Fred&Ferry (Antwerp, BE) |
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R&F/F&R are keen on self portraits. Often they used their own portrait as a prop in their various residencies and theatre pieces. Think of their ultimate transformation in ‘A journey into Space’ (2012) where Frank transformed in a Robbert and Robbert transformed into a wigged LA surfer, then into Frank dressed as a detective, then into an alien blob and also into a moving garden gnome.
Self portraits are transformation tools for Frank and Robbert. Often they transform into each other, and once in a while they transform in something so general that it can represent anyone at any time.
During their residency in 2019 at Air Alexanderplatz Berlin they started to redefine their use of their own portrait: instead of using photorealistic representation of themselves, the artists started to make abstractions of themselves. They called these abstractions ‘pointbeeks’ and ‘crossheads’. These figures represent the artists and were used in a series of clay tablets. Depicted on the tables R&F F&R documented their lives in poetic and/or surreal scenes with totempoles and hands reaching out of clouds, etc.
‘Self Portrait – Woodworking’ is different. It’s a ceramic sculpture. But it’s no longer a clay tablet. This 3D sculpture is figurative but contains the same pointbeek figures as seen in 2D ceramic works. It’s no fictional representation but an honest image: two figures are making something. They know each other, and they care about each other. It almost seems like one figure wants to support the othe one, asking ‘are you alright?’. This is the essence of the Frank and Robbert artist practice: two friends who care and create together.
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ARTWORKS
Theater
Table Dialogues | 2021 - ongoing | |
Don't we deserve grand human projects that give us meaning? | 2017 - 2021 | |
To Break - The window of opportunity | 2014 - 2015 |
Performances
Alter Ego Surgery | 2009 |
Go away sorrow of the world
Suitcase project
Clay tablets
Hugging | 2020 | |
Helping Hand | 2020 | |
Lunch | 2020 | |
To Break (theatre scene) | 2020 | |
Gemini Ritual | 2019 | |
Mask Totem Pole | 2019 | |
Ritual Fire | 2019 |
Shrines
Janus Self-Portrait
Sculpture |
2021 | |
Burning Shrine at Franks new home
Video |
2021 | |
Magic Mirrors - Shrine
Sculpture |
2021 | |
Shredding Sorrows
Sculpture |
2019 | |
To Break
Sculpture |
2021 |
(Solo) Exhibitions
Magic Mirrors - Ceramic Shrine
Fred&Ferry Gallery, Antwerp (BE) |
2021 | |
Breadcrumbs
Be-Part, Waregem (BE) |
2020 | |
Dr. Valcke
Water Clinic, Kortrijk (BE) |
2015 |
Drawing
Weakness is provocative
Other prints, books & editions
Other sculptures & installations
Other video works & projects
PONG
video installation |
2014 | |